I finally got to the point of being done slaving away for nothing. Bringing only what I can I fit/haul in the jeep XJ. Just got a 10x10 4 season wall tent. Stove just showed up today and Im doing a pre-burn on it as Im typing this. The 17th of December will be by last day at my job and Im heading out of wisconsin. Heading towards TX. It sure is nice being debt free.

You watch ONE “winter survival” video, and KZfaq goes nuts recommending millions of them. Loved this one too 👍

I was about to go to the store for milk and never come back, but then I found these and feel slightly better. Thank you.

Without question, the most informative, insightful video I’ve ever seen. At 63 I quit the corporate world ten years ago. This is the truth : I remember driving to work and saying out loud “I’d rather be reporting to prison “. I left a week later. I make just under $15,000 per year and I’ve never been happier. But I yearn to be out there where I and my dog belong. Great Video

Laughed pretty hard when you were talking about the anti theft devices. I was expecting a motion light. Good comedic timing. Inspirational video my man.

I built a 16x16 off grid cabin, in Da UP, in 2012. Ten acres, cabin materials, and a 300 ft, mine rock , camp road , cost me about $32,000… About the cost of a good used pick up…Slice of heaven

I agree with you completely - I spent 18 months in a small van in the desert with a nomad caravan. What a wonderful experience. Today I am building a tiny house!!! I am totally a minimalist and love it. I can live on less than $800 a month Happiest I ve ever been. I say to all GO FOR IT!!

Just discovered your videos about a week ago, and really enjoying them! I'm forcing myself to work through them in chronological order, and really fighting the urges to jump ahead and see what you're up to currently. I'll get there! Especially enjoy the humor, chain saw tips, philosophy, and even the occasional building knowledge! Your craftsmanship has really grown noticeably in just the first year! Great job!

I know exactly what you mean! You love hard work, and taking care of yourself. You just don’t wanna make someone else rich, off of your hard work. Stay safe out there🤙

I certainly admire what you are doing, after spending my life working in. an office and then getting "retired" at 55 (no choice). 4 kids through college and a wife who wants to die in the near 100 y.o. house we bought 55 years ago. Yeah, I'm 82, well off, but too ill to do anything now. But I enjoy living vicariously through videos like yours. My 100 lb. propane tank (full) was $50 and 80 mile round trip. My 4 IBCs were free but i've passed them on to others. I still can dream.

A project idea for the fall, snowshoes.

A little over a year ago I bought 5 acres for 5,000 in Southern Colorado. Been building with reused, recycled, up-cycled materials ever since.

I live in the Netherlands and last year I bought a piece of forrest I could afford. The Netherlands are packed so I paid a little under 3 euro per m2, which I believe translates to 30.000 dollars an acre. 1000 dollars an acre seems like a dream. But it was what I can afford at this time. No regrets yet :)

I think you're doing it right; live your dream if and when you can. Life's way too short! Explore and cash in on the alternatives! Thank you for the video and for sharing your perspective. The real joke is; the more commitments you have attached to your life, the less opportunity to do your own thing and explore the alternatives. I'm 76 but I'm catching on...lol...live on 200 hundred acres of wood lot and run out farm land. I'm on the grid but not by choice, still we keep it manageable with a significant other, two cats and a dog. A wrinkle I recently tripped over which might help you at some time: the MS261 saw can develop a sneaky problem with the fuel cap which can leak air and the saw won't start or won't run right, so if you get a chance to score a free fuel cap it might save a lot of trouble shooting. Stay safe.

Damn! Hit me with the quote I have had on my office job desk

That's a great way to lay it out to people. It really doesn't have to be brutally expensive to get a little piece of land if you're willing to shop around. I bought my little piece exactly that way. Figured out what I wanted my hub to be, figured how far I wanted to be away max drew a circle around it and looked for land within the circle. Everyone thinks you need half a million dollars or it's out of their reach. There's so many people that buy coffee and or eat out everyday. If someone considered that 10 dollars a day is 3650 in 5 years they could probably afford something. But I find for me anyhow it was more of looking at the long term goals of what I wanted. I think most people like instant gratification instead.

Been watching outdoor, homesteading, bush-crafting, prepping videos for maybe 10yrs. As well as collecting cheap 2nd hand tools, equipment, quads, for maybe the past 5-6 years. Maybe 3 of those years on watching the markets and educating on land value etc. …All with the intensions that 1 day in the future we would by some raw land. 11 months ago that “1 day” arrived. We got 80ac (50 mature Forrest & 30 fenced pasture). We spent alot time there this past summer and fall. Excited for winter to pass so we can get back to it. Its alot to take on all at once. It can be done. If my gal and I can do it. Anyone can. Set goals and make baby steps if need be. Only way to eat an elephant!!! Thats 1 bite at a time !!!

At about 9:00 in he says “don’t spend money”. That is an understated piece of advice. I think for a lot of people the transition out comes with a need for a psychological break and there’s an anxiety to “stock up” in town. Now after a few years I rarely need to go to town and I have my necessities down well enough I’m able to stock up and know what I need and not have that feeling that I’m forgetting something.

Love all of it!! Thanks for sharing your passion with us. Stay safe and God bless

Thank you It's a pleasure. Stay safe and Healthy.

The quiet solitude of that snow covered forest is something to experience. Makes winter camping a treat if you’re prepared for the temps. (I know that from an experienced, reliable and hardy source)!

" Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without." A common saying up here in Northern New England. Appreciate the thoughtful, genuine and soft-spoken tone of the narration. Good luck to you.

Your are a very smart person. I guess you already figured that out, but I thought I would toss it out there. Another excellent video.

Not sure how I got here but I’m glad I did. Liked and subscribed.

When I got to the point in the video where you were talking work, hard work, and going to college and the 9 to 5 job I felt I wanted to comment. Basically, I've been a hard worker my whole life. This 1 company we had quotas and I led the whole damn company every week on numbers for a year straight before moving up. I don't think anyone ever beat my numbers. Then I was promoted. For working the hardest. Nobody could beat me on numbers. I was on a mission. I believed if I worked hard someone would reward me. And just like that it was taken away. When I was promoted something happened and it looked like my new boss after being promoted decided I was a threat to her position. I was still working hard. And I didn't make mistakes. So it was a surprise. They also somehow decided that I would not be allowed to go back to my former position or to any other position in the company. I also was nice to people and didn't have any drama. I was shocked. ... And...I've been to other companies; almost every place I've worked at its a similar story. Every company I was at, I always tried very hard, with high accuracy, no mistakes, big efforts. And always its the same story; someone wakes up on the wrong side of the bed or their wife wants a new beamer, so they have to cut some necks at work. These companies have no loyalty to you for being builders inside of them instead of being employee squatters. They will throw you out to lunch for a dollar. That one company that turned me out after I set records... they are no longer in business. Big surprise there (not. Sarcasm here). I am not surprised they didn't make it because they did that to a lot of good people over people fighting over spots. There's no reason to not try to find a way to live that makes you happy because... these big companies, big dreams of being promoted, making big bucks... its an illusion. They have no intention of sharing it. They will never allow someone to exceed what they call their company's inner circle. And too many companies see you as a threat if you are smarter or better than they are. I haven't ever found a company that will really reward the people deserve it instead of the sharks and swamp creatures. Ever. My whole life. So there's no point to being in the rat race. They have no intention of keeping you, protecting you, or saving a future spot for you. Many times they are already thinking of when to turn you out even as early as the very interview they hire you on. The only thing you can count on is your connection with god and family. And sometimes you can't depend on family. If you can find a way to live free it seems like you should.

Thank you for sharing! Your content is inspiring, love the channel!

17:13 Love the casual way of showing that great security tool. I have a few myself

I been living outside for almost month and love every bit of it

Thanks for the video. I just went winter camping and never left the couch! You do have me thinking about it though.

I’ve loved coming across your channel!

Well, looks like I gotta set some time aside for binge watching. Cool channel, bro.

The UP is so beautiful. I love how much you appreciate the nature around you. Best Wishes from a fellow Michigander.

Just ran across your video. Very kool way of living. Great jobb

So glad I found your channel. I really enjoy the video.

Thank you for sharing, great stuff! Good to know information... Keeping it real!

I'm in northern WI, I love the way you live!! You're so crafty!!!

Love the channel, and your lifestyle! I'm in the U P also, on 40 acres in a National Forest. Altho I have a small house, I built a 16 x 20 log cabin back on the property. You keep giving me ideas for more to do here! I might even try slingshot bowling! Keep up the good work, I'll keep watching!

I watch a lot of these you tube off the grid videos, and what I see is that y’all work much harder in the wilderness than a 9-5 job, but you are doing what you love, so I guess it’s all worth it.

This guy impresses me more than Will Smith showing his mansion - am I nuts or nuts ? 😂

I'm essentially doing what you're doing, but in a warmer climate. I love your videos and find inspiration in them. Keep up the great videos. I have a feeling that you'll catch on and get a lot more subscribers as word spreads.

Just found your site think this one deserves some watching great video stay safe

At 75 I can’t do it but it looks challenging and fun! Sure beats the office cubicle or public education classroom.😊

Thanks so much! Fabulous job! Appreciate you sharing.

I love the videos and choice of life style.

Super cool as usual. Thank You

Dude... Love this. And I get it!! I will own my own land and live the way you do. I don't care what it takes. I may have inherited some acreage, but I am not sure yet. I'm not getting my hopes up, but I'm already doing what you do anyway by bushcrafting and making my own hot tents and all that kind of stuff. There's nothing like it! You earned a subscription from me!

Very informative. Thanks.

Love the Life. I "get it" completely. Enjoy!

Great forest property, awesome you own it. Love your projects

Omg, man. I watched the whole thing. I hope I'm not infected. Seriously, I was fascinated by how comfortable you seemed...living with zero comforts. Not one thing could I attach the word - cozy - to. I really love all the bargain shopping, but I noticed not one item of art, picture on a wall...nothing. i didn't even see a book. But...I loved it. I don't know why. Guess I'll have to subscribe until I figure it out.

So awesome love it 👍 I was born in Rudyard Mi.on the kinchloe airforce base. Always love visiting the UP i live in SC now tho have since 1976.

Subscribed because I laughed at the security joke. Great videos.

Thanks for another great video Mr. Worm!

Love every minute of your videos. Dont stop!

I’ve been watching your videos for quite some time and I never saw this one. I loved it! Thank you for sharing and entertaining! I already own my property and since Christmas, I’ve been cutting down shagbark hickory trees, straight as an arrow, 12 to 20 inch diameter and about 70 feet tall! There are hundreds on my property and a million squirrels! I think I want to cut them into framing materials. Some will only need two flat sides to be beams under the floor. I’ve collected dozens of 4x4 and 6x6 treated scraps about 4 feet to 6 feet long that will make great foundation posts. I’ve also collected 14 sheets of plywood or osb. I’ve collected 5 windows and one door without a frame. In my area, 90% of the roofs are metal. I’ve collected lots of pieces of different colors. I heard I can paint them. I still need to buy a chainsaw mill and make the guide rails that you described. My biggest obstacles have been overcome, the rest takes time. I’m trying to get my new neighbor to come dig some dirt for me. money talks. I need to dig a ditch to collect rainwater runoff into the pond that’s too low. That way I won’t have to deal with water low spot or run off across my access. I’m excited

Favorite channel

That 34 min video went by so fast. Great stuff. Happy for you.

Wow...Thank you so much for the hard core inspiration. I just got my land the monday after easter. I LOVE being on it. I have a completely different set of problems than you, almost no level areas at all, 20 minute steep hike in and out is exhausting... but it's in tropical mountains, so no snow, and so far surprisingly not buggy... I have a spring, a creak, a river with waterfalls, and swimming holes. Temp here is always 60s - 80s... but the rainy season is coming and it POURS. Wondering about milling tropical hardwood and building with all the great stone. Got a small camp up now, and spending my days with a machete and hand saw clearing. Pondering what to do with the video I'm shooting. ???

As soon as I saw the 9mm I couldn't help but sub! Lol. I like the channel and all the great info. Cheers from Iowa!

Great video, especially the no battery's required security device 🤣

I live in a tent,, full time,,, im houseless, not homeless,,, 💯😁,, an i love it,, im buying my land next yeae,,💯

What an incredible oasis that you built. I must admit I am jealous that I am watching this and not taking advantage of my own opportunity. If all goes well I'll experience some of this type of perfect soon enough. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge from experience.

That's awesome nice setup.

Some cardboard tacked to the walls would do wonders! Try the same cardboard on the ceiling and you should see a temperature increase inside your hut.

Great video !

That comment at the start of your is really good and so very true 👍

Great video!Thank you.

Found your channel. Love you vids. Keep them coming.

Im new to your channel. I wish I were living this way! Great for you and great wood work!! Thanks for your videos. :)

Absolutely amazing

My tax guy told me many years ago that the people with the most money tend to spend the least every year. Figuring out how to live cheap is a very valuable thing.

We have a cabin in the hithawa national forest I love it up here, we are using your deer blind video for inspiration with our deer blind this year! Love your videos. Keep it up!

Great Video! I just watched your Sky Deck video and I feel like I will watch every other video on your channel as well! Great Lifestyle, Great Craftsmanship and Great Filmmaking. You certainly got yourself a new follower, but only until i finally find a piece of land for myself :) Greetings from 'across the big pond'...

great videos! we don't really get the snow here in ireland ,but i really do enjoy the way you get things done .you make me laugh as well ,so that's a bonus :) working our way through all the videos .

We get the point but we still want to see more I'm loving what you're doing I just had a life-changing experience in Arizona that is going to bring me back to Michigan and I'm looking to do kind of what you're doing so keep them coming keep the videos coming we love them

Some of what you do ,reminds me of my special mind. Enjoy

I hear you bro. I hear you.

Awesome!

Thank YOU - I salute you and your attitude. I admit to being a Scot willing to make a penny scream when it passes off my fingers! Habitat is great! i enjoy supporting them - and me!

We inherited some wooded property in Wisconsin and love it there in the summer. I've been wanting to do some primitive camping up there just for fun even though there is a cabin on the property and it's about a 20 minute walk to the nearest convenience store...lol We also have a neighbor who lives there year round and keeps an eye on the place for us. I'm not much of a winter person even though I have lived up north for about 10 years. I'm glad I could live vicariously through your videos 😄

Awesome video. I appreciated it!

Thanks.

Keep plugging away at it bud . You’re doing a great job. It looks like freedom …..

Great vid and well described cost of living.

Awesome for you brother!

Wall tent and stove for me It will last long enough until my cabin is up

Excellent explanation. A lot of people have never thought of the trade off you make when you spend money.

This has alwsys been my dream but time will tell, & lotsvof efforts ofcourse

Great vid explaining it all. I really wanted you to jump into the snow on the gazebo deck, ha ha

Like your Channel, and all of your great Work!! Realy amazing!! (And your STIHL Machine.....i live near by the grand Factory...!! ) much greetings from Switzerland 🤗🇨🇭👍🍀💪🙏

About time!!! Love ur videos brother

Beautiful and amazing.....robin hood...so peaceful

55 yr old widow just bought my 117 acres in southwest Virginia. Paid cash. I’m cheap like you but I’m having to learn how to do everything. I’m housed in my comfortable campervan but I have been going south for the winter and this winter I am going to stay on my property. I’m absorbing everything I can about building, tools, foundations, septic systems, rain catchment etc. So thankful for your videos and others. Let’s me know I’m not alone.

Plenty of videos on drilling your own well. Even through the hard stuff. If you have trees, you have water bearing sand.

Most underrated channel ever

Awesome intro...

Here's a super pro tip- If you can find a local brewery, they're everywhere, and usually use high quality newer pallets. Which also have wider panels and nicer nails. No rotted or cracked pieces, perfectly cut 2x4's and panels, same size, consistency, no filth or rust, etc. They also take greater care when building and nailing them so you end up with straighter nails and holes that are all aligned. I guess it's because they store expensive products for long periods of time and cater to a more high end crowd so everything is usually kept at 100% high standard. I used to mess around trying to find the nicest ones, for years, going to all these random places all day, and discovered brewery pallets. That and Home depot also by the way. It's like buying brand new lumber but for free. Now i just go to one or 2 spots and choose what i need. No longer a game of hit or miss and even when you find some, hoping they're at least half way decent. You just go get the best of the best, no messing around. Done. It's crazy the piles that stack up after one or 2 weeks outside a brewery. Just ask one of the guys. They will give them to you 99% of the time. Don't waste 90% of your time and fuel searching for inferior pallets. They also have lots of spacer planks and nice long 2x4's because of how they stack products. Also in decent suburb neighborhoods where new homes are being built. The bricklayers and other specific materials always use high quality brand new pallets from the factory. You'll see them pile up over the weeks as each stage of the house is built. Also new development such as retail or offices being built use brand new fixtures and materials so a lot of brand new high quality pallets are used. The wide range of pallet quality going from gorgeous and sound, to garbage junk, especially if using for building, is like night and day. 😂✌

Dudee...this is the compound of my dreams...thanks for the ideas and I'm soo ready to give uncle the middle fingers...God bless u dude and say hi to big foot for me, and if u have any storys or videos of the big guy, please share 🙏...one love dude 🤙👍

Thank you. I bought 10 acres in U.p. 15k last spring. I cleared a spot for tents. Dug a fire pit. Hauled my 3 barrel smoker/grille up there. Put down a flowing point well. Gonna build a Richardsonian Romanesque masonry Earthship. Gonna have a private indoor jungle.

Thankyou